The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

TH E SUN gaLtE4 QUIS DICIFO& F4LIIVIA At;DIAT ? L 0 ND 0 IV, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,180 a. Government this day received the official account of the currender of St. Domingo, which will appear in the Gazette of to-night. This event took place on the 17th of July. Gen. CARMICHAEL .went with a competent farce from Jamaica, and effectually block aded the place. The French garrison, conceiving that our troops were more numerous, or that rei6force ments might immediately arrive, vent out a Flag of Truce, - after three days, and surrendered. The trench troops arc to be conveyed to France, not to serve again until, eNchanged ; and Qeneral cAR liIICHAEL, who engaged in the Expedition, .as the ally of Spain, rcAinguishecl the city to the-Spaniards, aulreturned with .his force to Jamaica. PRIVATE letters from Holland, of a 'ate date, re ceived Yesterday, .state, that a Treaty of Peace had beensigned between Austria and France, by which the - Emperor FRANCIS had abandoned his right to Austria, and was in future to be merely styled ". Xing of Hungary ,and Bohehlia." We g:ve this statement as it has reached us, without at present having any means of contradi&ing or affirming it. A Gottenburgh Mail arrived last night, which brings advices from Stockholm of the 9. Ist ult. Up to that date nothing decisive had occured with re aped to the ndations between Russia and Sweden, and military operations were suspended. It seems to be the main proje& of the disaffected Papers to force from the friends of Government some detail and confession (offensive to our Allies) of the disappointment our Army in Spain, and the Plans of i►s heroic Leader, have sustained from the want of concert, and the breach of engAgentents upon the part ot Gener:ll CUESTA._W T llether to calumniate our vitaorious General, or to inflame any possible rnisunuerstanding and resentments, be the predomi nant-motive, we pretend not to judge ; but refer to the respective taste and fee.iing of those Writers, who eyp . ty national di6appointtnent their own gain, acid their own triumph ! One Paper, in particular, has hazarded an attack so peculiarly vulgar and . illiberal, that it has pre sumed to question the veracity of Lot'( WELLING .ON 1 ..-4 s if, forsooth, an army that had once con quered was hound perpetually to advance . , in spite of all the difficulties and obstaeles of ground, scarcity, and hostile reinforcements ! !—And as if, because a reinforced army re-advances, it followed that it could never have been beaten ! Really one may think that some people were not very ill treated when they were no more than corporals in the army, if they draw such conclusions as. these; if they pro scribe . prudence whenever valour has been evinced, and impose upon success the forfeit of fighting after-. wards at every disadvantage.---Because Lord IArEL;,isoToN has not given battle a second time to the overwhelming disproportioned powers of the united French Marilials i ' he is to be vilified and run down ! !---,as if there were any thing in his charac ter more essentially glorious than not to have been blinded and intoxicated by the unvaried good for tune which has distinguished his military career;-- as if his Country could at this time have desired or wished to find any other quality and ingredient in his charaler, after so many vielories which he has won for her by enterprize and valour, than that pru dence and discritninatiOn which, according to cir cumstances, make him decline battles - with the same ccitl'anitnity which induces him to offer or accept them. Another of these Prints, improving upon the iveday hint?, insinuates—sh,ll we say—or a3 . serts, that Lord Wir.t.tNGTOkt is not worthy of credit, because Marshal SoyLT haiirig received' a complete defeat ppm) the Douro, is enabled, after a lapse of time, and the innelion of two Corps crArntees under the Marshals NET and MORTIEK, to move forward again I So that, according to theSe exad and disin !erested reasppers, no army that has ever been worsted can re-advance; and no army that has been succe , fui can ever again have a just motive for Tetjrips !- 7 Why, they did not t !link - it - impossible, or even extraordinary, that BcONApARTE, after, his defeat at Aspern, receiving reinforcements, should re-cross the Danube i—They did not express the 4mallest degree of surprise that the army beaten at 4ks,f - kertr should gain the day at Wagram ! It is only' otlr Own, heroic generals and vieto.rious troops that are to be dgranded and insulted by such beautiful 9yllitisms as' these I 74: 1 4:1 operations of Lord IN;LLINcIioN ex- perience no greater degree of candour or justice from the Times. Who was there in all this great reason ing public, that did not expe& and demand that our General, should attempt to penetrate into the heart of Spain ? and amongst the ill-disposed and illiberal has he not been loudly inveighed against, for not having attempted it earlier in the campaign ? Yet now that he has done it, .and gathered laurels of which the CERTAIN fruit is, the eternal honour and vindication of his country, whether the specific oh- jest of her exertions shall be accomplished or shall fail—now that the Spanish virtue and the Spanish valour are brought to a test by the achievements of a British Army—'-is he to be run down, or forced by the artifices of a faaion to an impolitic exposition of the series of errors, or any thing else, which have led the raw and inexperienced Commandets of Spain to disregard his advice and violate their conventions ? Will any good result from our Government, or fro,n Lord WELLINGTON urging every thing they might allege upon these topics against CuesT.s, 0: his forces ? and what could they say, that is not made obvious by the result of the battle of Talavera, which leaves no doubt, that if this Commander had been willing to make the piojeaed attack on the 24th, the'arinY of Vicwit must. have been broken never again to form in a field of battle ! VICTOR was to tally discomfited, and unable to rally, even after he had fallen back upon, and was supported by, those-numerous troops, which now became his re serve, •and arrested his flight front TalAtera What, tlien, Must have been the result, had Lord WEL LING lON been able to prevail upon CURSTA to at tack, before he had found these reinforcements ? The enemy might, nay must have been, we think, cut off in succession, and in detail. Such was the projea of Lord WELLINGTON—and even after the ill-judged determination of our ally, the result might have been as glorious as the battle of Talavera, and more fortunate and effeaunl, if by some fatality in explicable, or that one can hardly wish to be ex plained, he had not abandoned the excellent posi tion at Talavera, confided to his care with the sacred chaise of our ikounded ! I We had advanced to Placentia to combat once more the fierce and treacherous invaders of Spain, leaving to CJESTA the Post at which we had already gloriously repelled the attack of a French army more than double in numbers to our own—and that Ge neral,..from some mistaken notion of honour, if you please, or some misjudging view of advantage, abandoned the position which Lord WELLINGTON retied upon to prevent the junEtion of alt the French armies ; What the surprize and vexation of Lord WELLINGTON must have been, it will not be diffi cult for any, man of sense and of liberality to conjec ture. He could not have invented a more binding pledge upon Spanish gratitude and honour than he left along with the post of Talavera—the care and defence of his wounded ! And is he to be reviled and worried by the brutal ignorance of malignity and faction, for having eXtricated himself from un expealed and incalculable difficulties like these, with a dexterity and prudence only to be compared with his valour and decision ? Is a hero, who has so often fought the battles of his country, and never fought a battle which he did not gain, to be made the mark and butt of the perverse and envious absurdity of Newspaper-Generals—shall we call them, or Politi cal Assassins, whose ann . , whose objeCt, and whose policy is to decry, and defame and level all that is great and good and happy in their country ; and uphold every suborned and faaitions hope or repu tation !!- • With regard to the return of our Expedition from Flanders, some allowance must be made for the lan guage of Opposition. The smallest portiokof pub lic disappointtnent is their triumph and fruition ; and as the Expedition has not accomplished every thing that has been. sanguinely expe&ed from its magnitude; and the great and unequalled exertions that were made to prepare it, it is perfeElly natural for them to sink the two points that have happily §uceeeded, and to be extremely loud and eloquent upon the due which has been prudently abandoned. The Island of WALenEREN, with the strong fort ress of Flushing, has been occupied at the expence of fifteen thousand killed,. wounded, and prisoners, to BUONAPARTE ; and a most powerful diversion has been effected, at the most interesting and decisive period imaginable; in favour of the House of _Ails- TRIA, our Ally. • And was that unfortunate, that fatal Armistice of Wagram, which will be recorded in the 'b lackest page of European history,' to produce no effect whatsoever upon the ulterior progress and conduCt, and extent of that diversion, which we were efleCting in favour of the Power who, to all appearance without a colour of necessity, has sub mitted, degraded, and betrayed itself to this dread ful extent ? If the event of any measure falls 4bort'of their combination, and disappoints their efforts, it is iM possible but both Ministers and the instruments to to whom they have confided its execution, must feel mortification, They are so far deprived of .the hp!. ourable reward of their own labour, and see a benefit witlt-held from their Country in the expectation of which they must have indulged the justest and most delightful contemplations. They must be the first to feel, and must feel the most deeply. Let us re collea, however, that, if not to have attacked Lillo and Antwerp be a disappointment, it is a dis appointment which bas cost us no Army and no exhaustion : we have sacrificed nothing for it ;• we now have the disposal of the Forces that we hoped would have attempted them It is easy to sit in one's closet, and plan and rivet the success one hopes tor; but are Statesmen and Generals exempt ed from all miscarriage and failure ? Arc wise plans never thwarted, even by accident ? One of the Wri ters in the most malignant of the Opposition Papers may not, perhaps, have forgotten the Failure of a Plan of the Earl of ST. VINCENT, intrusted to the immortal NELSON, at Teneriffe. Was it projeded without wisdom, or confided to hands unfit ? And • though we lost so many brave and valuable seamen, and ran so near a hazard of losing that Admiral who since gained the Battles of the Nile, of Copenhagen, and of Trafalgar, did it ever enter the head of any man to censure and condemn the Earl of ST. VIN CENT or the illustrious Hero lie deputed upon this disastrous Expedition ? That the elements were, for an entire.month, most unfavourable, and beyond all average or calcu lation from experience unfavourable to the Expedi tion, is notorious; that the unwholesome quality of a low and vapourish country inundated for so many leagues—that many circumstances yet to be explain ed or divulged—may account satisfelaorily for every thing that seems inadequate, in the ends obtained, to the obje6ts proposed by the Expedition, never occurs to the determined Enemies of Government. It is to be assailed through the sides of every Officer it employs ; and, unfortunately for Lord CHATHAM, as well as for Lord WiLLINOTON, the one is a dis tinguished Member of the G.,vernment, and the other is not the only member of an illustrious tami, ly, who has defended and is Lkely to defend and ad vance its Interests and its Glory I—Sir JOHN Moons could find Strenuous Advocates in these very quar ters, and under circumstances, not quite those of a skilful and fortunate retreat, accomplished after a glorious and almost unparalleled vielory : or the prudent abandonment of one object, which had be come impracticable, after a brilliant and perfect suc cess in two others of far greater importance !, There was a report yesterday, that a negociation had commenced between our Government and that of Russia, and that a cons►derable and very favoura ble approximation had taken place. Orders have beet) sent otf to some of the outports, for as many ships as could be got ready for sea, in the course of three or four days, to be forwarded without a moment's loss of time. The orders to Sir RionAar) STRACHAN apprised, that all the ships in the late Expedition were to have their defects re paired immediately, and that they would be com pleted with stoles and provisions for one month longer. The Hero, Revenge, Monarch, Resolution, Be/Jona, Illustrious, .:11i 4d, Orion, and Achille (of the line), winch arrived at Portsmouth front the Expedition, are also ordered to be victualled for five months, with all possible haste. tl vessel is arrived in the River from Corunna, which place she left on the 25th ult. ROMANA'S army had then marched into the interior, and toe Asturian army was at Leon. Several persons had lately been hanged at Corunna for treason. The Zealwid, of 64 guns, is preparing at Sheer ness fir the reception of 300 convicts, who are daily expected at that place, for the purpose of as sisting in the erthion of a large stone wall, to pre ! . vent the violence of the sea damaging the Dock yard, the sad effeCts of whi c h were severely felt tinting the high tides last year. In the late a6tion in the Bay of Naples, the Cane, Capt. STAINES, after a very gallant anion, in Com pany with ,the Sitian gun-boats, took or demoyed nearly the whole (46) of the.enemy's gen:bouts.— Capt. STAINES had his right arm carried off by a cannon shot towards the close of the action. • . There is no alteration in the price of Brea4 this week. . it is 'positively determined, it seems, that the , priQes of the Boxes and Pit are to be raised tit the new Theatre in Covent-Garden, but- this addition is to be very small and confined to these plAces.--The Galleries, which peculiarly belong to John BO and his family, are to remain at the former standard. The folldwing attempt to escape was recently made by four convicts at Fort Cumberland, near Portsmouth. The driver. of one of the carts em ployed in carrying gravel, being suddenly knock ed down, the four convicts seized on the team, consisting of t wo- horses, when t woof t hem irmnedi ately mounted one of the horses, and rode into the stream s in the hope of reaching Haylingisland, on the opposite shore.—But the animal not being able to support so great a weight, became so deeply im mersed in the water that the convicts were washed off and drowned.—The animal being thus released, returned to the shore in safety. Toe other horse being mounted, in the interim, by one of the -re-* maining convicts, he ' rode it down to the edge of the water, with more speed than yaution, and was 'thrown on his head, and very much bruised. This horse being now free from ail incumbrance, was mounted by the fourth convia, but he, seeing the 6te of his companions in the stream, deemed it more prudent not to attempt his escape by the same route; thereforeztook the resolution of riding more safely across. the mud •of Langstno Harbour to, Milton Common ; but the horse sopn sticking fast in the mud, the convict Was taken off its back, and Ole animal was With difficulty brought to shore, , • M_if LS. attit tv —t Gottenhurgh. Du F-A Cottenburgh, t Lisbon, I Dublin, 2 Waterford, I'RICE OF STOCKS 'THIS DAY AT TWZI.V a G'CLOCK• COnSOire - - T , NAVAL NEW PORTSMOUTH, SErr. 4.—Arrived his Majes y'‘ brig Defender, with a French galliot pr . ze, from the Westward ; the Edgar, BROWN (transport), from the Downs for Gibraltar ; and the ,Elizabeth, SHr►~.- TON, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, SEPT. *.--Arrived the Hendfa, ROCKING, and liatella, HENDRA, from London for Gibraltar; his Majesty's schooner Phipps from Ports mouth ; GOODFELLOW, from London for Rio Janeiro; and Tortoise Store-ship from Gibraltar. The schooner General Heslop, Timrcualt, from Jamaica, is arrived with a cargo of cotfee, after a passage of 44' days : an officer landed with dis. patches. DEAL, SEPT. 4.--Came down from the River, the CCeSar, FOWLER, fur Jamaica. Came in the Bold gun-brig, and Sprightly cutter, with four sail of transports with detachments of dif ferent regiments from Flushing. Sailed a division of transports with detachments of different regiments from Flushing ; also sailed a division of transports with 2d dragoon guards, and d King's own, o❑ hoard, to itamsgate Fier, for embarkation. Cowzs, 4E 'r. 4.—The sun-brig Mazer has just brought in here a French buy, in halla,t, as she was con:ling:out from Havre de Grace, and is procceding with the same to Portsmouth. Sundry transports are alio arrived with foreign troops, said to be belonging to the Duke of Balms• WICK'S corps, consisting together of about 150 q men. ISLE or Wioirr, SEPT. 4.-,The Duke of Ilatgia , wictt,'s Levy marched through Newport from cows to tkcs different outposts in the Island. The Princess Maly packet, arrived at Falmouth, left at Malta the Col nwallis and Prince I::rne;s packets—at Cadiz, his Majesty's ship Donegal. which was to bring home Mr, ti4itg (whose artivat Mrs. FxxtiE awaits at Falmouth) • also the 411 as, Conqueror, Leviathan, and Duke ofiVontrose packet; and at Gibraltar, the Kent, cambrictn 4 audpurc /4 ., pine. Townsend picket had arrived at Gibraltar, On the tit') ult. the Hyperion sailed with convoy foi Enginid. lhe letters Iron' Malta are of the 2i3t June, and state that the t»ercnants had received at;.- counts by the Thames frigate, of the French beintt, in possession of Trieste at that time; and that 9 their arrival there they ordered such a cutitrihutiori tQ be levied on the town as could not possibly be p a d. On failure, they seized and sent to the army, " hostages, 40 (it the principal English merchants %OS, had turtned edablisinnents there. The A.merican Consul wal also obliged to fly. Every kind of col 9-1. vial produce is a were drug at Malta, owing to nur wcrous arrivals of Atnerican vessels with West dian and American cargoes. A letter received from an Officer on board his Majesty's ship Bonne Citoyenne, contains the repot; of the capture of the kinieuse, one of the French frigates which escaped trout the Saintes, and after-, wards from Guadaljupe. It was on the Otti July, atter a chase of twenty hours, ihat the B,bniii Crtyoyenne caroe up with, and engaged the Furielo. The bnftle, v , hid) WdS of the most furious dc . script Lion, lasted six hours and foity-hine minutes; of the expiration of which the Furause struck, having sustained a loss of 33 kille4and nearly 50 wounded, amongst which was her Captain. 'rho Bt/Viet Citoyenne had only one man killed, and five wor,:nd.t ed, twct of them badly. The Bonne Citoyenne is small vessel of her class ; but the Forieuse is cipable of m ountin g pu guns. She is about six years old,. and extremely fit for the King's service'. From the short distance from each other, at which the ships engaged, from 20 to 80 yards; they were, at the close of the action, complete wrecks. At the time when our informant wrote, three days alter the ac, tion, the Bonne Citoyenne, will] her prize, was steering for the Island of St. John's, Newtoundland; but from the crippled state of the ships, some doubt* were entertained, whether they would be able to reach that port, The Inricuse was bound to Bay - Orme, with a cargo of sugar, ci , tiee, and a little cocoa. The letter from which we have extra6ted this intelligence, was received through an American vessel, just arrived. • On Monday sennight a Court-Martial assembled, at Portsmouth, to inquire into the eondua of Cap tain HENRY EDWARD COLUMLINE, Commander 0 1 his Majesty's late ship Sole&ay, and that of his Of ficers, and shim's compriny ; and to try them for the loss of that ship. The Court agreed that no Warne was imputable to Captain CoLomatNE, Or his Ot' ficers and ship's company, for the loss of his Ma' jesty's late ship Solebay ; but that it appeared, that, after she was on shore, and before she was aban doned, Michael Grace, Thomas Jones, Charles aid R,.ber► Stocks, seamen, belonging -t° her, had been in a stare of drunkenness; and the Court adjudged, that Captain C9LUMBINE, !lib Or' fleets, and ship's company, be acquitted, excepting Michael Grace, whom the Court sentenced to r 4 ' ceive 160 lashes, Thomas Jones to receive 1 0 lashes, and Charles Miens and Robert Storks to re' ceive 50 lashes each, and to be mulcted, or to for' fait all the pay due to them from the itth - of Jl,l l l last. On Tuesday a Court-Martial was held at Ports' mouth, oti JOHN ASHLEY, Catpenter his M 3: jesly's ship Derive:4., for beltig drunk wben ordered on duty, at the capture of Senegal; so that he was incapable of, leading his men to the attack of that Oleo. He was sentenced to be dismissed the 507 vice, rendeted incapable of serving as An (Oa f again, and to be imprisoned six mouths in the M3P khatsea prison. . Our letters from Cadiz state the arrival at ,t 1 ):: place of the Francisco de Paulo, from Vera. Cra wttlt eight trillions of dpilars up board,